Audrey’s Magic Nine – #35

When I was drawing this page, all I could think about was the love and hate relationship that I have with Corvus. He was the cause of the day he had to help save.

On a less sour note, below are a couple of sketch pages I did a while back. And as is the case with many of these 4×6 inch thumbnails, I have a lot of notes written out to the side to help me. When drawing pages, I make a LOT of mistakes. So I use these sketch pages to reduce them as much as possible, before enlarging them for final pencils.

As I see it…The problem with his ‘original’ cure is he did a short-term memory wipe that left Hekla without the context but let her experience the aftermath- if he had left well enough alone back then he’d have a depressed but probably would recover in time kid on his hands. I think he got a dose of wrong magic because what he was doing was half motivated by pride/ half kind of trying to ‘fix’ the problem without understanding what truly went wrong.
This time around it seems like it should ‘take’ better, because Hekla isn’t just going to swing around to ‘mom is dead! AND IT’S ALL YOUR FAULT!’ courtesy of just running over to her mom, discovering her death and immediately getting super mad, but instead gets to greet her newfound friends Audrey and Corvus.
…I’d like to think Corvus has had time to refine his ‘mental healing’ so it’s not so mind-wipey- Hekla might remember the things she did, but can see how she was motivated by obsession and loss and thus not fall back into that pattern of ‘gotta get mom back!’
I could also see it ‘failing’ and Hekla swinging around to a ‘phase 2’ fight where she floors the Magic 9 and Corvus because she’s got the mindset granted by Wrong Magic but is also ‘refreshed’ and free to scar herself up all over again thanks to the healing.

I know Hekla hasn’t really been a mother to Audrey or behaved as one, but is taking another mother away from someone the right solution? Will Audrey stay in contact with Hekla, or will they both be raised together by someone who is hopefully not Corvus?